Sahaspur in context: Street-network sprawl trends

The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Sahaspur plotted against Uttar Pradesh and India. All three follow the same trend in new construction, suggesting a shared regional pattern of development. Most recently, Sahaspur's incremental SNDi rose from 7.42 to 7.62 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Sahaspur ranked 277th out of 291 cities in Uttar Pradesh and 1784th out of 1868 in India as of 2020.

Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.

What about similarly populated cities?

• Amarillo, United States
• La Victoria, Venezuela
• Yangsan, South Korea
• Kinzao, Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Jijel, Algeria
• Tsuchiura, Japan

In new street additions, Sahaspur fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Amarillo built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved and Kinzao built increasingly disconnected streets over time. Looking at the full network, Amarillo and Kinzao both became progressively more disconnected, while Sahaspur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards.